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Hi Julia
There's no such thing as a UK adoption, the UK is four different countries that like the states in the USA, have their own adoption laws and statutes.
It's Scottish adoption you need to ask about, I could give you a fairly comprehensive answer if it were England & Wales, but I don't know much about Scottish adoptions at that time.
In England I know you have up to 40 days to register a birth though it's usually done sooner than that, sometimes the registrar used to visit the hospital and it was done there.
In England a child could not be placed with adoptive parents before they were 6 weeks old and I believe there had to be a period with the adoptive parents before the adoption order could be granted, meaning most adoptions were finalised when the child was 5 or 6 months. But as I say that is England, Scotland might have been quite different.
Robin
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